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Tracing the Tidwell family through lodge life
Family history often survives in fragments: a name in a lodge register, a notice in a local newspaper, a funeral reference, or a photograph showing a small…
Allen's prose: The bootjack that belonged to great-grandfather South
Some objects become family through the hands that used them. A bootjack is a humble lever, yet the one that belonged to my great-grandfather South holds a…
The McCarthy Family’s 1885 Wedding Invitation: A Transcription
The McCarthy family’s 1885 wedding invitation is a modest piece of paper with a wide family reach. In Allen and Loni Hackworth’s archive, it can connect the…
Obituary of Harriet Tidwell Telford, 1840–1920
Harriet Tidwell Telford’s obituary is a compact record of a long life: 1840 to 1920. Like many notices of its kind, it gives the essential facts while leaving…
Land patents and South family property boundaries
An old property boundary can preserve more than a line on a map. It may record the name of a landowner, the course of a creek or the neighbours who witnessed a…
Loni's photo album: The Brighton children's school portrait, 1912
The Hackworth family archive presents this image as part of Loni's photo album: a formal Brighton Children's School group portrait dated 1912. Alongside Allen…
The Telford Family’s 1900 Photograph of Their Threshing Crew
The Telford family’s 1900 photograph of their threshing crew preserves a small but vivid record of rural work at the turn of the century. More than a group…
Allen's how-to: a family history blog post with scanned documents
On this family archive, a family story often begins with paper: a birth certificate, probate letter, school report, handwritten recipe or bundle of letters…
The Rain on the Tin Roof of the Tidwell Barn
The rain on the tin roof of the Tidwell barn is an ordinary event with an unusually durable memory. In Allen Hackworth’s poem, that sound becomes a record of…
A chalet exchange in the Swiss Alps
Switzerland’s chalets offer a change of pace that few Australian holidays can reproduce: timber-lined rooms, a stove warming the living area, and villages…